The setting first takes us to Pontiac County, Quebec, around 1900 where Irish famine farmers and French Canadians had settled along the St. Lawrence River and eventually moved into the hinterlands of Quebec, hoping to farm and cut more trees. An old priest had been vanquished from New York to a remote Canadian parish after [...]
The O’Briens by Peter Behrens
March 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Fiction
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Going Raw
March 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Cooking, Health
Television can be scary. Every five minutes or so, the current episode is interrupted with an amazing drug ad touting the healing powers of that drug that will alleviate your high cholesterol, bad mood, low t, indigestion, gas, incontinence, impatience, shaky legs, spartan patches of hair, scratchy throat, red eyes, allergies and pain. Then comes [...]
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The Magic of The Healing by Jonathan Odell
March 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Southern Fiction
Consider the term magic. More specifically, good magic when good trumps the bad, when someone with powers beyond our understanding does or says something that turns despair into hope and healing. In The Healing, there is a lot of this kind of magic. Three black women—Gran Gran, Polly Shine and Violet—possess this power but note [...]
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Why Meditate? Working with Thoughts and Emotions by Matthieu Ricard
February 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Zen
Why indeed, meditate? Humankind has engaged in this activity for more than 2000 years of recorded time, possibly longer. Ancient practices that persist into our own time through many cultures and even religions do so because the benefits can be transformative, medicinal or just plain relaxing. People like myself who have a monkey mind, a [...]
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